Over-the-shoulder bass horn, E-flat
Alternate name(s)
- Over-the-shoulder tuba, E-flat, high pitch
Maker
Slater & Martin
Date1868-1874 ca.
Place MadeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on plaque attached to bell: Slater / & Martin / N. Y.MarkingsStamped on third valve rotor cap/ring: 4
DescriptionBrass; with silver-plated finish. Nickel-silver bell garland. Three, top-action rotary valves with string linkages.
DimensionsHeight: 1350 mm
Bell diameter: 310 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesJohn Joseph Swain, A Catalog of the E-flat Tubas in the Arne B. Larson Collection at the University of South Dakota, Ph.D. Dissertation (East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1985), p. 68.
SMM Newsletter, January 1982, p. 4.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988), p. 54.
Margaret Downie Banks, “Nineteenth-Century Brass instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum,” Brass Bulletin (1/1988), p. 61.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00317
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